Rip: Why are you so scared?
ME: I don't want to die.
Rip: Yeah? Well you don't seem to want to live either. So which is it? See, it's the habit of living you're scared of losing.

Minister: I remember when you were a boy, climbing up the scaffolding. I think that was the last time you were here.
John: I've seen too much bad in my life to believe that God exists.

John: Where you been, sweetheart?
Beth: The park. What are you doing?
John: Trying to make another decision a father never should have to make.

It's only the things I love that die, Rip, never me.

Beth

That's the difference between raising a son and a daughter. With a daughter, you try to stop her from getting screwed. With a son, you try to stop him from screwing himself.

John

John: That boy quit a long time ago. If he wasn't strapped to the saddle, he'd be lying in the dirt.
Rip: We'll make a cowboy out of him before sunset.
John: It's just a favor. That's all he will ever be.

Tate: Do you think someday an explorer will find our bones and ask what happened to us?
Kayce: I think after us, Tate, the exploring's all done.

Jamie: You know, I'm not gay. I'm celibate, because I'm terrified of passing on the gene that made you.
Beth: Good one.

Jamie: I'm gonna need some time. How long can you hold this report?
Governor's Aide: A week, maybe.
Jamie: Okay. I'll look into it.
Governor: Do it fast. This is the kind of ship that sinks everyone.
Jamie: That's the only kind of ship I ever find myself on.

Tate: What happened to the tractor?
Kayce: I flipped it.
Tate: Why'd you do that? What's that?
Kayce: Get in the house.
[Kayce picks up a rifle.]
Tate: I think the tractor's already dead.

Man: I don't miss being low man.
John: Low man is what turns you into cowboys. We'll make him [Jimmy] into one too.

Yellowstone Season 1 Episode 2 Quotes

Tate: What happened to the tractor?
Kayce: I flipped it.
Tate: Why'd you do that? What's that?
Kayce: Get in the house.
[Kayce picks up a rifle.]
Tate: I think the tractor's already dead.

Man: I don't miss being low man.
John: Low man is what turns you into cowboys. We'll make him [Jimmy] into one too.